Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 126
One day he said to his wife: “I am going into the town, in order to beg my brother to help me.”
Who acts: peasant · What happens: say, go, beg, help · To what, where: wife, town, brother, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 order | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 beg | mark |
| 20 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | advcl |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beg | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 beg | advcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | peasant | peasant's wife | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | peasant | the town | in order | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request in a quote | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | my brother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | peasant | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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